About our Digital Curriculum
This product grants you a 4-year long subscription to a digital ebook version of our printed 1st Grade Package. The digital curriculum is for use on electronic devices and cannot be printed or shared.
Please allow 2-4 business days for us to grant you access to your digital subscription. Digital eBooks will be accessible through the Kitaboo platform.
Click here for more information about Oak Meadow's digital curriculum subscriptions.
What's Included
The following literature and materials are included with this digital 1st Grade Package:
- 1st Grade Coursebook - Digital
- 1st Grade Resource Book - Digital
- Beginning Recorder - Digital
- Word Families - Digital
Please note that the Essentials Package, which includes The Heart of Learning, Guide to Teaching the Early Grades, Crafts for the Early Grades, Circle Time CD, and Healthy Living From the Start, are used in Kindergarten through grade 3, therefore you only need to purchase once.
Additional Materials Recommended:
The following items are recommended to complete the 1st grade coursework:
- The Heart of Learning - Digital
- Guide to Teaching the Early Grades - Digital
- Crafts for the Early Grades - Digital
- Healthy Living from the Start - Digital
- Charlie the Ranch Dog: Charlie's Snow Day
- Charlie the Ranch Dog: Stuck in the Mud
- Charlie the Ranch Dog: Charlie's New Friend
- Frog & Toad Are Friends
- Frog & Toad Together
- Mouse Soup
- Mouse Tales
- 1st Grade Craft Kit With Recorders: optional kit containing craft items used in the 1st grade curriculum.
- Essentials Craft Kit: optional kit designed to be used alongside our K-3 Essentials Package, and includes many of the common craft items you'll need in your homeschool.
1st Grade Overview
View a sample of our 1st grade curriculum here.
Oak Meadow’s lively and engaging 1st grade curriculum will help you guide your child toward solid reading and math skills while encouraging an active, inquisitive mind.
In language arts, literacy skills are developed through a language-rich curriculum that focuses on stories, poems, and songs. Students progress through learning how to print upper- and lower-case letters to a study of word families and consonant blends. The imagination is sparked through fairy tales, nature stories, and traditional verses as your child develops the necessary skills and confidence to read independently.
In social studies, students begin to develop a sense of time and place as they encounter classic tales, make their own calendars, learn to use a compass, and draw maps of their neighborhoods. Multicultural awareness is explored through community connections and a developing sense of good citizenship.
In the math curriculum, stories are integrated into the study of numbers, and objects from nature collected on a walk become part of learning the four mathematical processes. Students also explore sequences, patterns, counting money, and geometric shapes.
Science, arts & crafts, music, and health round out the 1st grade experience. Each week students engage in observations of the natural world, express themselves through painting and crafts, develop their recorder playing skills, and conduct inquiries into topics related to their healthy development.
Projects, crafts, and activities through the year include:
- Make a book of stories with summaries and illustrations
- Create your own store and marketplace
- Make a Native American teepee
- Make a weather vane
- Identify animal tracks
- Learn to knit
- Build a birdhouse